Spilt and contaminated chemicals and pharmaceuticals should
not be returned to the pharmacy but should go directly from the point of production to a waste store. Typically,
they are stored and transported within a health-care facility in brown cardboard boxes and must be kept dry.
Where specialist disposal services exist, they should collect and handle radioactive wastes. Otherwise, waste may
be stored in secure, radiation-proof repositories (leak-proof, lead-lined and clearly labelled with the name of the
radionuclide and date of deposition) where it should be lef to decay naturally